Does North America Exist? : : Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11 / / Stephen Clarkson.

In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2008
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Framing the Question
  • I. North America as Market and Community
  • Part One. Less Than Meets the Eye: State Re-regulation via Regional Institutionalization
  • II. NAFTA's Institutional Vacuum
  • III. NAFTA's Uneven Judicial Capacity
  • IV. Transborder Labour Governance
  • V. Transborder Environmental Governance
  • VI. Transboundary Water Governance
  • Part Two. More Than Meets the Eye: Market Reconfiguration at the Continental Level
  • VII. The Role of Big Business in Negotiating Free Trade
  • VIII. Continental Energy (In)security
  • IX. Agriculture: Beef, Wheat, and Corn
  • Part Three. The Continent in Transition: Further Reconfiguration under Globalizing Pressures
  • X. The Steel Industry
  • XI. Textiles and Apparel
  • XII. The Governance of Capital Markets
  • Part Four. Not What Meets the Eye: Global Governance in North America
  • XIII. The Banking Sector
  • XIV. Labelling Genetically Modified Food
  • XV. Intellectual Property Rights and Big Pharma
  • Part Five. Just What It Used to Be: Persistent State Dominance
  • XVI. Border Security and the Continental Perimeter
  • XVII. North American Defence
  • XVIII. The Third Bilateral: The Mexico-Canada Relationship
  • XIX. The Security and Prosperity Partnership
  • Conclusion: Framing the Answer
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index